George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s, he developed hundreds of products using peanuts, soya beans and ...
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Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington’s ...
In August 1775, nothing particularly dramatic was happening among the roughly 14,000 soldiers of the Continental Army besieging the British army in Boston. Indeed, nothing particularly dramatic ...
This essay is adapted from First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America by Cassandra A. Good © 2023 by Cassandra A. Good, used with permission ...
A great American tale about honesty may not be all that honest. A myth surrounding George Washington, the first U.S. president and Founding Father has been debunked by contemporary historians. One of ...
In a redesigned U.S. quarter released in 2022, Founding Father and first U.S. President George Washington faces the opposite direction from that in the previous design. While we have no insight to ...